Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-01-28

record was made and the division of pro
ceeds was made upon that standard. For
example, we will suppose of two diaries
one registers 16 per cent and the other &c
per cent of cream. In the first case 1G
per cent of the whole milk and in the
other 20 per cent is taken as the basis for
division. TO illustrate the practical
working of this system of tests will take
one example from the records. We had
two diaries, one of four and the other of
six cows. In the month of July the one
of four cows yielded 1922 pounds of milk
testing II 1-2 per cent of cream. The
other, of six, yielded 1864 pounds of milk
testing 10 2-3 per cent of cream. The
one of four cows averaged 755 1-2 pounds
per COW of milk yielding ~ pounds of
butter and requiring % pounds of milk
to each pound of butter. The other aver
aged 900 pounds of milk yielding 30
pounds of butter and requiring only 20
$40 pounds of milk for pound of but
ter Had we paid uniform price of so
cents hundred, the poor milk would
have brought S6.04 and the other S4.S7,
premium of over % per cent in favor of
the poor milk when the true value of
each is taken into account; surely, a
pretty poor inducement for a farmer to
improve the quality of his cows and take
the milk to a creamery where all milk is
considered of the same value according
to weight.
1t will be observed that in the fore
going case the average daily yield of
butter did not largely vary in the two
diaries, being as q to 80, the first making
up partially by its extra yield of milk
what it lacked in quality. This we found
to be the case quite uniformly where the
test was low the yield of milk was great
er, which only gives additional force to
the argument in the premises.
Another cause of the variation in the
price of milk was this: Several of our
patrons furnished large supply of milk
in the early part of the season, when
butter was low, and very small supply,
comparatively, in the latter part when
the selling price of butter had advanced
fully 80 per cent. An example from the
records will illustrate this. Two farmers
contracted their milk in the spring at so
cts. per hundred for the season to go to
another creamery This contract was
broken on the first of July and it came
to our factory the remainder of the sea-
son. BY good care of his cows one kept
up the flow of milk so that his milk net
ted him 80 cts.per hundred while we had
it; the other let his yield fall off so that
his only netted him so cts. The average
tested value of these two lots was near
ly the same.
Our butter was put upon the market
and sold nearly as fast as made. There
were two reasons for this. \ majority
of our patrons needed and depended upon
the proceeds of their diaries to pay their
running expenses. Those who were able
to hold theirs had heard the unfounded
assertions of the veracious gentlemen
who run the opposition to the centrifugal
system, that the butter would not keep,
and they were afraid to hold it. After Il
time it became fully apparent that there
was no foundation whatever for the
charge and that it was Il pure fabrication,
but no move was made to hold until
about the first of September, when few
of our patrons requested us to hold theirs.
We had "A few hundred pounds on hand
made in August, the very worst time in
the year to make good butter. What was
due them was set one side and held till
recently and put upon the market, where
it has sold nearly up to the highest quo
butter and giving the holders an advance
of about % per cent over what it would
have Melted them had it been sold when
made. Had all of our June, July, and Au-
gust make been held, it would have made
Il very material difference with our show
ing and our patrons receipts.
navy Suitt Out WV itcult W OiIC VI
our patrons who held-and will here say
that what he did could have been done
by others. His milk did not test any
larger per cent than the average, but he
kept the flow up well in the latter part of
the season. so that he had Il large yield
of butter when it was the highest. These
two causes resulted in raising the net
average price Of his milk to over 81 cents
per hundred and his butter to 20 cents
per pound. Had his June and July but
ter been held, it would have increased
the price of his milk to nearly 81 humid
red and the net price of his butter to be-
tween - and % cents per pound; SO it
will be seen that to attain the best results
in a creamery individually and collective
ly as much depends upon the patron as
the manager. There must be co-opera-
on the part of both.
n. b. DOUGLAS.
Cornwall, VT, Jan. %. 1887.